Re: Vowel "colors", was "colored scripts" etc.

On Monday 21 January 2002 21:51, Danny Wier wrote:

> Lemme think about that.... if the octave in Western equal
> temperament tuning is divided into 12 equal parts, then the color
> wheel would be used at 12 equadistant points. Red would be assigned
> to C, giving the following:
<zap!>

> But all this can be a problem unless you're really good at seeing
> colors; same goes for vowel descriptions....
I see another problem: this presupposes that everyone uses
equal-tempered tuning. Our a-cappella choir, singing very close to
mean-tone temperament, would make loads of grammatical errors :-)

   Irina

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